Back in Time

Published 6:00 pm, Friday, January 22, 2010

Jan. 24, 1930: A Ford coupe belonging to E.J. Morehead and stolen here several days ago was recovered in Canyon and returned here by Kelly Hooper, deputy sheriff, and Harve Bolin, city policeman, who had gone to Canyon on other business. The man who took the car has not been apprehended. He had traded or sold it to a Canyon man.

•Contract for the paving of Highway 28 from Plainview east to the Floyd County line will be let in April or May.

•Tom Shelton today announced that he is a candidate for re-election for the office of mayor of Plainview.

•The line-up for the boys basketball game against Tulia includes Tilson, Pannell, Terrell, Laird and Churchwell.

Jan. 24, 1950:

•Carolyn West, 11, a pupil at Central School, is under treatment for scarlet fever. Harold Keen, 20, also has scarlet fever and is quarantined to his home.

•Mmes. T.C. Shepard, G.W. Wagner and E.Q. Perry were hostesses for a Valentine luncheon at Blasingames.

•Jim Dick Wade, 1006 Denver St., was among 14 men sworn into the Navy recently in Albuquerque.

Jan. 24, 1960:

•Maj. Gerald Bayley is head of Group V Civil Air Patrol Operations. (Bailey was longtime owner of the Army and Navy Store located south of the courthouse square.)

•Jimmy Carter was high point for the PHS Bulldogs with 10 points in their 37-35 win over the Pampa Harvesters.

•At Hutcherson Air Service, Fack Hough obtained his commercial pilot’s license and George Ferris received his instructor’s rating.

Jan. 24, 1980:

•Herald Sports Editor Bobby Hall wrote a feature on Jack Thompson, a basketball referee who is terminally ill with Limb Girdle Muscular Dystrophy.

•Gail West of Abernathy, widow of Maurice West of Hale Center, is the new director of Hi Plains Nursing Home in Hale Center.

Cotton Center farmer Tommy Joines was named 1979 Outstanding Conservation Farmer in Hale County. Norman O. Wright was elected assistant vice president at Hale County State Bank.Lockney Public Schools closed their doors today for the week to help stem what is described as a minor scarlet fever epidemic in that city.